This week certainly isn’t getting much better for the Fisher family. Yesterday Star Wars actress Carrie Fisher died from complications of a heart attack she suffered on a flight back from London on Friday. Now, Fisher’s brother has released a statement saying that his Mom, iconic actress Debbie Reynolds, “is with Carrie.” It appears that the trauma of losing her daughter was too much, so she suffered a stroke in the process.
Here’s more from our folk over at TMZ.
“Debbie Reynolds — who rose to stardom in “Singin’ in the Rain” and quickly became a staple among Hollywood royalty — died Wednesday as a result of a stroke, TMZ has learned … just one day after her daughter Carrie Fisher passed away … this according to her son Todd.
Debbie was rushed to a hospital shortly after 1 PM when someone at the Beverly Hills home of her son, Todd, called 911 to report a possible stroke. We’re told Debbie and Todd were making funeral plans for Carrie, who died Tuesday of cardiac arrest.
Debbie famously divorced Eddie Fisher in 1959 after his affair with Elizabeth Taylor. Debbie married 2 more times in 1960 and 1984.
She played iconic roles in “Tammy and the Bachelor” and “The Unsinkable Molly Brown” … for which she earned an Oscar nomination.
Carrie’s relationship with Debbie was the focus of Carrie’s semi-autobiographical book, “Postcards from the Edge,” which was later adapted for the big screen, starring Meryl Streep and Shirley MacLaine.
Debbie’s survived by her son Todd, who tells us, “She’s with Carrie.”
She was 84.”
If you’re an avid Golden Girls viewer, then you may remember Ms. Reynolds when she portrayed the fiesty older lady who would become the new roommate to the girls once Dorothy married Stan. Of course that never happened because the wedding never happened. Debbie really made an impact on the cast and the audience.
Perhaps the movie Ms. Reynolds will be most remembered is the 1963 horror classic, The Birds. Debbie fought off those birds tooth and nail in that film. What an epic movie!
We are lifting up the entire Fisher family in prayer….especially Carrie’s brother Todd and daughter Billie.
No word on funeral arrangements, but hopefully there will be only one ceremony to endure.
Let’s take a look at a melody from five years ago that the Mother and daughter sang on The Oprah Winfrey Show. Grab your hankies.
Rest in peace Carrie and Debbie.
